Chapter Summaries

Qin Muchu checked the group’s training results and announced the third phase of the Furnace Plan. The next day, Ma Hongjun returned to the Academy badly beaten after trying to rescue a girl in Suotuo City, and Qin Muchu began to suspect who had attacked him.

• Ma Hongjun demonstrated his control of a hundred silver needles by drawing a Fire Phoenix, and Qin Muchu and the others teased him that it looked like a scruffy chicken.
• The other four trainees showed that they could also control a hundred needles, and Qin Muchu praised their progress before announcing the final phase of the Furnace Plan would begin after a day off.
• Ma Hongjun tried to sneak into the Dormitory with his face hidden, but Qin Muchu made him turn around and saw his bruises, torn clothes, and other injuries.
• Ma Hongjun said a middle-aged Four-Ring Soul Ancestor had beaten him after Ma Hongjun tried to stop the man from following a young girl in Suotuo City.
• Ma Hongjun described the man’s sleazy Martial Soul, and Qin Muchu suspected he knew the attacker while Snow Girl asked what Ma Hongjun meant.

Ma Hongjun told Qin Muchu that Bu Le and his two companions had beaten him, so Qin Muchu and Snow Girl went with him to find them. After the Wretched Three Brothers insulted Snow Girl, she froze all three to death.

• Ma Hongjun explained that Bu Le, Old Goose, and Tianya had defeated him, and Qin Muchu promised to help him get revenge.
• Qin Muchu used the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to locate the three men at a nearby courtyard.
• Qin Muchu sent Ma Hongjun to draw the Wretched Three Brothers outside while Snow Girl waited with him.
• Bu Le and the other two emerged and mocked Qin Muchu before making lewd remarks about Snow Girl.
• Snow Girl asked whether killing the three would cause trouble, and Qin Muchu told her to kill them.
• Snow Girl unleashed freezing energy and turned Bu Le and the other two into frozen corpses.

The Shrek Seven Devils began the third phase of Qin Muchu’s training, a hundred-kilometer cross-country run carrying heavy weights while Flender and Zhao Wuji tried to stop them. They entered a forest and faced Zhao Wuji’s ambush, with Dai Mubai preparing to confront him.

• Ma Hongjun watched Snow Girl leave the Wretched Three Brothers helpless and feared her power.
• Qin Muchu explained that the third phase would combine the earlier training: the students would carry weights on a hundred-kilometer run while Flender and Zhao Wuji blocked their route.
• Dai Mubai led the group into the hills, where they crossed a stream and entered a dense forest.
• Zhu Zhuqing warned the others and dodged Zhao Wuji’s Great Strength Vajra Palm with Dai Mubai as he was caught off guard.
• Zhao Wuji unleashed tenfold gravity, and Dai Mubai used White Tiger Possession to lighten his body before facing him.

Dai Mubai and the others fought Zhao Wuji, using their Soul Skills and increasingly coordinated attacks to test the strength he displayed while suppressing his power. Oscar narrowly evaded Zhao Wuji’s surprise attack, and the group’s precise reading of his Soul Power revealed the benefits of their two months of training.

• Dai Mubai used Golden Armor Overlord Body and charged Zhao Wuji twice, but Zhao Wuji repelled him with ease.
• Zhu Zhuqing attacked while Ma Hongjun and Oscar supported the group, and Zhao Wuji stopped Zhu Zhuqing’s strike without pursuing her.
• Ning Rongrong’s enhancement failed to affect Dai Mubai, so she focused her support on Zhu Zhuqing and Ma Hongjun as the three fighters surrounded Zhao Wuji.
• Oscar gave Ma Hongjun a Flying Mushroom Sausage, letting him attack from the air and improve the group’s coordination against Zhao Wuji.
• Zhao Wuji raised earthen spikes to force the attackers back, then sprang toward Oscar, who dodged by folding his wings and falling rapidly with Ning Rongrong’s help.
• The group’s precise timing and positioning showed that their training had taught them to analyze Zhao Wuji’s strength through fluctuations in his Soul Power.

Dai Mubai, Zhu Zhuqing, Ma Hongjun, Oscar, and Ning Rongrong combined their attacks to force Zhao Wuji to use his Martial Soul Avatar, passing the first trial. As they continued through Flender’s difficult route, Qin Muchu observed Ning Rongrong entering a state of deep insight that might help her overcome the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda’s flaw.

• Dai Mubai detonated his golden cracks, disrupting Zhao Wuji’s balance and creating an opening for Zhu Zhuqing’s attacks.
• Zhu Zhuqing’s assault briefly stalled Zhao Wuji, allowing Ma Hongjun to strike him with Explosive Meteor Crash.
• Dai Mubai, Zhu Zhuqing, Oscar, and Ning Rongrong continued their coordinated attacks until Zhao Wuji activated his Martial Soul Avatar and stopped the trial.
• Zhao Wuji praised the five students and declared that they had passed the first trial, then sent them onward to face Flender.
• As the group crossed difficult terrain, Qin Muchu praised Ning Rongrong’s growing battlefield awareness and predicted she would soon reach rank thirty.
• Ning Rongrong sensed her teammates’ Soul Power with unusual clarity and realized that her insight might one day help her attain the Eight Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.

Flender ambushed the five students with Gale Tornado, but Dai Mubai recalled Qin Muchu’s advice and led them to escape by following the wind’s rotation. Flender then launched a stronger attack, and the group identified his real body and countered.

• Flender caught Dai Mubai, Ning Rongrong, Qin Muchu, Xiao Wu, and Ma Hongjun in five Gale Tornadoes, and Ning Rongrong’s protective Soul Power quickly failed.
• Dai Mubai remembered Qin Muchu’s palm routine and his advice to use softness to overcome hardness and go with the flow.
• Dai Mubai told the others to stop resisting the tornadoes, and all five rode the currents out through the top.
• Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun attacked Flender, who answered with Wind Blades and four Cat Shadow Traceless figures.
• Zhu Zhuqing spotted the second figure from the left as Flender’s real body, and Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun redirected their attacks toward him.

Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and Zhu Zhuqing fought Flender while Oscar and Ning Rongrong supported them, and the five passed his test. They reached the finish line exhausted and began meditating to recover and cultivate.

• Oscar threw sausages to Dai Mubai, who replenished his Soul Power and coordinated attacks with Ma Hongjun and Zhu Zhuqing against Flender.
• Flender met their simultaneous attacks, and the collision sent Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and Zhu Zhuqing crashing down.
• Dai Mubai caught Zhu Zhuqing and dislocated both arms, while Zhu Zhuqing landed safely and helped set his arms back into place.
• Flender praised the five and told them to use their remaining strength to reach the finish line.
• Ning Rongrong and Oscar helped carry the injured and exhausted group forward until all five reached the finish line together.
• The five began meditating in a state of total exhaustion to recover their Soul Power and cultivate.

After five months of training, the Shrek Seven Devils completed the first stage of Qin Muchu and Flender’s Furnace Plan and met Qin Ming and the Heaven Dou Team. Insults over the Shrek students’ achievements sparked a confrontation, leaving both groups ready to fight.

• Ning Rongrong’s Third Soul Skill reached a forty-five-percent amplification after she gained her third Soul Ring and improved her control over Soul Power.
• Qin Muchu and Flender ended the first stage of the Furnace Plan after five months of training.
• Qin Ming introduced himself as a former Shrek student and revealed that he had reached rank 63 at age thirty-four.
• The Heaven Dou Team took offense when Flender said the seven Shrek students had broken Qin Ming’s record.
• Yu Feng mocked the Shrek Seven Devils, and Ma Hongjun confronted Osler, prompting both teams to prepare for a fight.

Flender allowed Qin Muchu and the other Shrek students to face the Heaven Dou Royal Academy team, despite Qin Ming’s warning that his students were powerful. Ning Rongrong’s identity and the revelation that all seven Shrek students had reached the thirties ended the Heaven Dou team’s contempt, and both sides agreed to prepare tactics before fighting.

• Qin Ming apologized for his students’ insults, then explained that they were Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s First Team for the Grand Event a Year Later.
• Flender encouraged the students to exchange pointers, and Yu Tianheng led his team to the Training Ground after provoking Qin Muchu’s group.
• Qin Muchu reassured Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing that the Heaven Dou students had little connection to the imperial family, and they joined the others.
• Yu Tianheng introduced himself as a rank thirty-nine Battle Soul Elder from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, prompting the Shrek students to recognize his powerful background.
• Ning Rongrong introduced herself as a rank thirty-one Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda Soul Master, and Yu Tianheng’s team realized that all seven Shrek students had reached the thirties.
• Yu Tianheng apologized for his team’s earlier offense, and both teams agreed to spend an incense stick’s worth of time arranging their tactics.